Google's New Search Engine: Videos!

[xskater]

Google has released the BETA version of its video search but its not what you might think. It is a search engine for tv programs rather than a video version of its image search.

Video Search: http://video.google.com/?sourceid=gvd&subid=us-et-about

(from http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2005/01/google_video_se.html)
Google Video Search



Google launched video search tonight and doing a quick Google Video Search for TiVo shows you that it's pretty good at pulling out all the mentions of the company in the 24 hour news cycle. Lots of little news shows showing up in the screenshots. It goes beyond simply search through transcripts and actually shows screengrabs of when the words were mentioned. Does this mean Google has a Myth or TiVo farm somewhere in the Bay Area, sucking down every single channel's video to index for the search engine?

I can't wait to see this new thing grow -- hopefully someday soon all that video will be one click away to view. Maybe they could even become an iTunes Movie Store and sell shows/movies too?

[Phate]

this isnt that new... i have been using it for a while now.... The only downside is taht you only get a summary of the TVshow... not the actual movie clip

[xskater]

i no its not that new, but only a few months into it without much mention. u can get transcripts for certain shows such as jeopardy which is handy if...... u like jeopordy :-\

[Phate]

I just think it would be a lot better if you could actually watch the episode of jeperdy... rather than read about it

[xskater]

well some people dont have tvs...... yea its ture. plus idk mybe they need game-show questions or sumthing for like..................................... um...... fun? =\ fuck it